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Montserrat Pallarès Barberà

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Montserrat is a Full Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Geography Department. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Geographical Analysis. Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences February 2011 to January 2012. Her Ph.D. was in Economic Geography and Location Theory at Boston University. Currently, her research focuses on the intersection between Urban Geography, Geographic Information Systems and Social Well Being. Pallares held administrative positions in her university, being for some years Vice Rector at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Pallares has conducted field work in Spain, specifically in Barcelona and the Pyrenees. She started her research in the automobile industry in Spain; in which she did her Ph. D. Dissertation. Her research then moved to different topics within Economic Geography, such as studying economic clusters and spatial loyalty of economic activity in rural areas, area taxonomy, gender and social capital, and new economy in cities. She is now involved in the study of the relation between urban planning and social well-being, analyzing the provision of services and population in the outstanding classics of urban planning such as Ildefonso Cerdà’s Plan of Urban Expansion of Barcelona.

Áreas de interesse académico e científico Areas of academic and scientific interest

Economic Geography
Urban Geography
Geographic Information Systems
Social Well-Being

Publicações Selecionadas Selected Publications

Vera, A., Pallares-Barbera, M., & Logroño, M. P. (2022). Cadenas globales de producción y espacios económicos relacionales en contextos urbanos y regionales. Departament de Geografia, Facultat de Filosofía y Letras, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Asociación Española de Geografía, Grupo de Geografía Económica. https://doi.org/10.21138/ge2/2023.lc
Pallares-Barbera, M., & Sánchez-Hernández, J. L. (2022). Nuevas fronteras en el espacio económico.Economía social y economías alternativas. Documents d’Anàlisi Geogràfica, 68(3), 505-518. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/dag.745
Pallares-Barbera, M., Sánchez-Moral, S., Vicente-Salar, R., Arellano, A. (2022). Health Geography of COVID-19: An Exploratory Analysis of the Pandemic during its First Phase in the Compact Cities of Barcelona and Madrid, Spain. In S.D. Brunn & D. Gilbreath (Eds), COVID-19 and a World of Ad Hoc Geographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94350-9_20
Rafael, V. S., Pallares-Barbera, M., & Martin, A. P. (2021). Dinámicas y flujos de conocimiento en coworkings. Micro-espacios de innovación en el Distrito Textil de Trafalgar en Barcelona. In S. Sánchez-Moral, J. Salom-Carrasco & C. Ochoa (Eds.). Estrategias, espacios y redes para la innovación urbana. https://portalrecerca.uab.cat/en/publications/816e1630-636a-40af-b558-5506e96d2d57
Maksymiuk, G., Pallares-Barbera, M., Arvanitidis, P., & Gawryszewska, B. J. (2021). Thinking Deep. Acting on Top. Underground Built Heritage and Its Fringe as a Community Catalyst for Local Sustainable Development: Exploratory Cases from Poland and Greece. Sustainability, 13(24). https://doi.org/10.3390/su132414031